Hope isn’t the only strategy for Afghanistan

As the ice melts in the Hindu Kush mountains this year, all parties know that the informal truce forced by winter is being lifted and …

Tehran seeks to dominate Middle East politics

With the creeping possibility of a nuclear breakout, its vigorous sponsorship of international terrorism and its escalating intervention next door in Iraq, the Islamic Republic …

Who are loading local-interest add-ons to the Iraq war funding bill. Even as they protest against the war, Democrats are tacking on to the $100 billion war supplemental bill requests for aid …

Anthology of case studies provides starting point for strategic planning

The future remains an enigma wrapped in familiar myths and all-too-comfortable illusions. One can try to predict the future, but prognosticating is …

“Partner in the brown water; secure the green water; own the blue water,” is a colorful new Navy mantra. It refers to the need to work closely with other nations to operate …

The psychological element of counterinsurgency warfare can be the most persuasive

T. E. Lawrence was not the first irregular warfare theorist, but he was the first practitioner to note that the cognitive …

The Army has to write it now — for next time

Together, the Army and Marines shoulder the combat duties in Iraq, supported by the other services. But the primary burden of …

Washington’s war over Iraq is also a constitutional debate

George W. Bush "is the president of the United States, not the king of the United States," Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., declared. "He …

As the Navy fine-tunes its new maritime strategy, scheduled for public release this summer, the temptation is to make Sea Power 21 its foundation. But Naval War College professor Milan Vego shows …

Webster’s says you can communalize, but you can’t commonize.

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